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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Romanos, 'the Melodist', 6th c.

Saint ID

S01631

Gender
Type of Saint
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E03885The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 4 October *Arethas and the Martyrs of Najran (ob. 522/523, S01492); a martyr Zebedee, an unidentified figure; the *Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (brothers who fell asleep during the persecution of Decius, S00287); and *Romanos ('the Melodist', S01631).
E04238The Miracles of *Artemios (18) recount how *Artemios (martyr of Antioch under Julian, S01128) revealed the identity of the thief to a devotee who had had his clothes stolen while attending vigils at the saint's shrine in Constantinople. The saint made the man swear on an icon of *John (the Baptist, S00020), which he had in his home, that he would not do any harm to the thief. Earlier the victim had visited the church of *Panteleemon (martyr of Nicomedia, S00596), seeking information about the thief. Written in Greek in Constantinople, 582/668; assembled as a collection, 658/668.